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A luxRury of synthetic signals

Nature Biotechnology volume 24, pages 658–660 (2006)Cite this article

A method for altering the substrate specificity of LuxR proteins may facilitate the engineering of artificial communication systems among cells.

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Figure 1: Engineering LuxR to respond to a new signal and not to its natural signal requires both positive and negative selection.

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